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<h1>Deploying Commercial PyQt5 Applications<a class="headerlink" href="#deploying-commercial-pyqt5-applications" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>Deploying commercial PyQt5 applications can be a complicated process for a
number of reasons:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>It is usually better not to rely on pre-requisite packages being already
installed on the user&#8217;s system.  This means that as well as your application
code, you also need to include the Python interpreter, the standard library,
third-pary packages and extension modules, and Qt itself.</li>
<li>Some target platforms (iOS for example) have restrictions on how an
application is built in order for it to be included in app stores.</li>
<li>It is necessary to discourage users from accessing the underlying PyQt5
modules for themselves.  A user that used the modules shipped with your
application to develop new applications would themselves be considered a
developer and would need their own commercial PyQt5 license.</li>
</ul>
<p>The recommended solution to all of these issues is to use <a class="reference external" href="https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqtdeploy/">pyqtdeploy</a>.</p>
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